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Generally favorable reviews- based on 25 Ratings

  • Summary: Control any department within your government or delegate decisions to your Cabinet Ministers. Sophisticated Military Strategic and Tactical Command System. Select from hundreds of actual military vehicles to research, build, and deploy. Choose conventional warfare or develop your nuclear weapons program. Detailed Economic and Political Models. Flexible Diplomatic Interface allowing sophisticated negotiations. Play any one of over 250 Regions world-wide. High Resolution Satellite imagery provided courtesy of NASA. Single Player or Multi Player support. Includes Map Editor and extensive modability. Varied Game-play options include Regional Battles, Missions and Campaigns. Introducing BattleGoat's new Super Sandbox Mode for unlimited customization and replayability. [Paradox Interactive] Collapse
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  1. Positive: 4 out of 17
  2. Negative: 1 out of 17
  1. Vast amounts of data flow through the complex management system in this world domination game. Can you can master the strategy and keep an eye on your subordinates? This is the ultimate challenge of epic proportions for people with entirely too much time on their hands. Or perpetually sleepless. [Aug 2008]
  2. Supreme Ruler 2020 is as deep and complex as they come, albeit incredibly intimidating.
  3. Personally for me, the learning curve is a bit steep and the commitment too large. But that’s me – this is a great game, polished and well worked. If you have the time and the inclination the rewards on offer are great, and it’s highly unlikely to become a repetitive experience.
  4. Supreme Ruler 2020's steep learning curve and micromanagement will turn off all but the most fanatical strategy gamers.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 3
  2. Negative: 1 out of 3
  1. This game is horribly addicting! For me the strength of the game is the Shattered States campaign that results in a global free-for-all. Playing as a second or third tier nation results in vicious campaigns in the middle of nowhere and supply is just as important as the latest weapons. Oodles of fun!

    Peacetime is boring though, so play like it a really detailed game of Risk and just have fun with it.
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  2. This is a very well rounded grand strategy game. It has many addictive and very immersive features that have kept me playing for hours. The unprecedented level of control you have over the economy, government, and military is very fun and rarely gets old. Despite it's good qualities, it has some pretty big problems. The AI are total morons and are terribly coded, and the multiplayer is a broken feature. Not only is there no match making or even serve browser (you can only connect via LAN) when you do get playing, stats and features displayed to each player almost immeidately go out of sync. Over all good, but much improvement is needed. Expand
  3. KhimLo
    4
    Not as complex, or as fun, as they hype it up to be. You would find it impossible to replicate real life scenarios, with wars declared by AI for no reasons. It's an unfinished product, which becomes apparent when you load up a save game, with countries crumbling like dominoes.IE China ceasing to exist and is absorbed by Mongolia...what??????? Worst is India being absorbed by Nepal.And with the game all about waging war, you can;t purchase military units. ( you need to purchase research, and build them yourself) At least the first patch finishes some features.Conclusion : leave it until patch no. 5 Expand